Navigating Difference was commissioned by four audience development agencies, Arts About Manchester, Audiences Central, Audiences London and Audiences Yorkshire. Arts Council England’s work on diversity made it an ideal partner in the project. None of the partners wanted to produce a simplistic guide to ‘best practice’ because their work over the past 10 years has … More
Data and evidence: Access to data and evidence supports higher quality adolescent health and healthcare. We conduct research, evaluate services, produce briefings and compendiums of data for front line practitioners.
Ama Culture Hive: This series of five case studies demonstrate different possible approaches for increasing the diversity of your audience. From the Balti Bus project at the Lawrence Batley Theatre, through to The Ramayana at Royal National Theatre London, each project approach is outlined and its effectiveness evaluated.
Short synopsis: Inclusive Cinema was a UK-wide project developed by the BFI Film Audience Network (FAN) designed to support screen exhibitors. The project celebrated diversity on screen, in the audience and behind the camera. Inclusive Cinema was at the heart of BFI FAN’s strategy. It aimed to bring British, international and independent film to all … More
In March 2019 The Audience Agency delivered a series of evaluation workshops for libraries, commissioned by the DCMS Libraries Taskforce and supported by Arts Council England. Four workshops were delivered across England; in the North West, North East, South West, and London / South East regions. This Resource Pack brings together the evaluation workshop slide set and notes, themed resource links … More
Creative and arts based approaches can be particularly powerful, especially at the data collection and dissemination phases of the evaluation cycle.
Case studies are often presented in arts and health evaluation. They are used to highlight participants’ stories of the impact of arts projects. A well written case study can powerfully convey the impacts of an arts project.
Roz Hall is a socially engaged arts practitioner, a photographer who has undertaken independent evaluations for many years, starting with her work with young people in digital media projects (Hall, 2005). Conventional evaluation approaches can be lacking if they do not attempt to understand the meaning of arts participation to people taking part. Participatory Action … More
Qualitative data include information gathered about participants’ experiences, perspectives and opinions. They can help to understand the meaning of arts activities and processes to participants. They can reveal important subjective information as well as illuminating the process of project delivery, showing unintended consequences of projects that cannot be identified through measurement using pre defined categories. … More
This paper gives a brief introduction to the issues and techniques used for assessing value, including economic evaluation and social return on investment.
